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Something is SO not right with this. How can no one *seriously* question the whereabouts of this boy until 16 months later? How could Mum not want to see her son, or speak to his grandparents who were 'caring for' him when they were only a short distance away? And what did they tell the grandparents who were 'caring for' him when they wanted to see their grandson? Either this is one VERY dysfunctional family, or everyone has an idea of what happened but were too afraid to bring it up.

And don't even get me STARTED on whoever at CPS decided this case wasn't worth investigating. I'm in no way belittling the work that they do, but clearly someone dropped the ball on this one.

I believe LE have already figured this one out, but don't have the evidence for a case yet. Dad's already changed his story from leaving the boy with his Mum to leaving him at a fire station, AND he's gone missing since the child was reported missing.

Poor little Dontrell. How could no one be on his side?

I don't feel like this is going to have a very happy ending at all, but I pray that this beautiful child can at least be brought home so he can be laid to rest instead of being somewhere out in this great big world on his own.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson

In October 2012, Hallandale Beach police caught a whiff of trouble. They received a report that the mother was having “custody issues” with Melvin. That report may have been in conjunction with a service call to the home in which cops responded to a fight between the parents.

A report generated at that time referenced the missing child, stating: “It is not known if the child is alive.”

The Broward Sheriff’s Office, which investigates abuse and neglect in Broward under contract with the Department of Children & Families, didn’t learn any of that because the report was “screened out” by DCF’s child abuse hotline, even though Dontrell’s extended family had previously been under the supervision of Broward’s privately run child welfare agency, ChildNet.

More months passed.

Dontrell returned to DCF’s radar Wednesday night after another call came into the child abuse hotline. As a result of that call, which was not “screened out,” a child protective investigator went to the family’s Hallandale Beach home — finding the two children instead of the expected three.

So many people failed this child. A report generated in October not knowing if the child was alive and then DCF screening it out. Somebody should have intervened in October and I don't understand why they did not. Why didn't the police that responded to the call do something?

Something is SO not right with this. How can no one *seriously* question the whereabouts of this boy until 16 months later? How could Mum not want to see her son, or speak to his grandparents who were 'caring for' him when they were only a short distance away? And what did they tell the grandparents who were 'caring for' him when they wanted to see their grandson? Either this is one VERY dysfunctional family, or everyone has an idea of what happened but were too afraid to bring it up.

Respectfully snipped.

I don't think everyone has an idea about what happened. My gut is telling me 'dad' was putting off both his parents and Dontrell's mother when they each asked about Dontrell. I honestly believe he had two stories going with each side for a long time until his excuses weren't working any more.

What I fail to understand is how he managed to keep the story going beyond Dontrell's 1st Christmas.

Or dad just had no relationship with his parents for a long time, so they never asked and he just had the one story he gave Dontrell's mother.

I think something bad happened to Dontrell the day his father left with him and returned without him. I just hope he tells the truth now for everyone's sake.

~JMO~

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. ~Author Unknown

I am curious if the paternal grandparents even knew about the new baby.
And I can't even find a Senior in Pompano as far as paternal grandparents plural. Maybe just a grandmother...

That's a good question. The MSM articles upthread read they haven't seen him in over a year. Now I am wondering if they mean that for the grandparents AND mom, or just mom? Hopefully that will be cleared up.

~JMO~

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart. ~Author Unknown